Archive for the 'Taser causing eye injury' Category

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Matthew David Kelly is bringing a federal lawsuit accusing a Fayette County Sheriff’s deputy and an Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper of using excessive force. He was tasered twice causing him to lose vision in his right eye. A truck driver was stopped by troopers and Mr Kelly was asleep in the cabin. […]

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This is the abstract of an article published in the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, showing how tasers can cause serious facial injuries. “This case expands the knowledge of injuries that may occur as a result of the use of this device and the management of peri-ocular TASER injuries.”]] International […]

[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Protesters say they will march on Logan police again this Saturday and every Saturday until some answers into how a local indigenous Woodridge woman, Sheila Oakle, who is participating in the protest, was tasered in the eye are given. Meanwhile, Ms Oakley had returned to hospital yesterday for more surgery to her […]

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Indigenous community leaders say Queensland Police have inflamed tensions in Logan City by turning up at an anti-Taser protest armed with Tasers. More than 100 people marched to Logan Police Station after Sheila Oakley was blinded in one eye after being tasered by an officer earlier this month. Ms Oakley, 36, was […]

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Tasers to oppose those opposed to tasers? Supporters of a Logan woman who was blinded in one eye after being tasered marched on the local police station on Saturday demanding justice for Sheila Oakley. Ms Oakley, 36, led the march.]] Brisbane Times and Sun-Herald, by Cameron Atfield Supporters of a Logan woman […]

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A woman loses an eye from tasering by police last Thursday. A police spokeswoman said the woman became aggressive towards officers, one of whom – a taser trainer and described as “a very experienced senior constable” – then used his stun gun.]] Brisbane Times, by Natalie Bochenski http://m.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/police-taser-woman-in-the-eye-20140207-325dl.html A Logan woman who […]

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: (see video here) Sheila Oakley, 36, an aboriginal woman, was tasered in the eye by the officer at her home near Brisbane yesterday, who was a highly experienced Taser trainer. He continued to arrest her with the taser dart in her eye. Ms Oakley was intoxicated and admits she held a stick […]

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : (For the taser reference, see section in italics towards the end.) Michael Mondo, with a long police record, and struggling with paranoid schizophrenia, lost his right eye after a Tasering incident with Meadville Police more than two years ago. The police tasered him before a medical crisis team could intervene. Mr […]

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS :The local Daegu police are under fire for using excessive force to control a woman who was drunk at a restaurant. The woman is now permanently blind in her left eye after a police officer Tased her face. The officer said it was an accident, but the woman claims otherwise. The police […]

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : When the evidence of abuse gets overwhelmining, the overwhelmed start running: no mess, no need for an enquiry. … The Meadville police officer who fired a Taser that took out a resident’s eye has filed for retirement, declining to speak to the media. Sgt. Glen Peterson, a 32-year veteran used a […]

[[GlobalShock: 27 year old Scott Ramsey, in jail for probation violation for failing to appear for a drug rehabilitation program, was shot with a taser between the eyes to break up a prison brawl: non-compliance with officers’ orders. He has probably lost the use of one eye. In April of 2010, Corrections officer Jonathan Wingo, who fired the shock had completed eight hours of training (what did he learn?). Before the Monday use of the Taser, Wingo had fired it five other times. Four of those one other with the probes. (Suggestion of widespread use in prisons?) None of those shots hit above the neck….]]